ABSTRACT

As one of the first book-length collections of critical essays on the topic of asexuality, Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives became a foundational text in the burgeoning field of asexuality studies. This revised and expanded ten-year anniversary edition both celebrates the book’s impact and features new scholarship at the vanguard of the field.

While this edition includes some of the most-cited original chapters, it also features critical updates as well as new, innovative work by both up-and-coming and established scholars and activists from around the world. It brings in more global perspectives on asexualities, engages intersectionally with international formations of race and racialization, critiques global capital’s effects on identity and kinship, examines how digital worlds shape lived realities, considers posthuman becomings, experiments with the form of the manifesto, and imagines love and relation in ecologies that exceed and even supersede the human.

This cutting-edge, multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary book serves as a valuable resource for everyone—from those who are just beginning their critical exploration of asexualities to advanced researchers who seek to deepen their theoretical engagements with the field.

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

Ten Years of Asexualities

part I|46 pages

Beyond Sexuality, Beyond the Human

chapter 101|12 pages

Sexuality Is Over. Long Live Asexuality

Post-Sexuality in the Post-Post Era

chapter 2|14 pages

Asexual Ecologies

chapter 3|18 pages

Ace-Ecologies

The Asexual Erotics of Loving Kin

part II|64 pages

Asexuality, Identity, and the Political Sphere

chapter 564|18 pages

Radical Identity Politics

Asexuality and Contemporary Articulations of Identity

chapter 5|19 pages

“There's No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship”

Asexuality's Sinthomatics

chapter 6|17 pages

“Jarek, Get on Tinder”

Anti-Nonsexual Slogans at Polish 2020 Abortion Protests

part III|60 pages

A/sexologies

chapter 9|23 pages

Between the Bedroom and the Laboratory

Clinical Intimacies, Paraerotic Potential, and Therapeutic Excess

chapter 10|20 pages

Deferred Desire

The Asexuality of Chronic Genital Pain

part IV|48 pages

Asexualities in Place and Space

chapter 18011|16 pages

Toward Asexual Geographies

Void-Publics and Spaces of Refusal

chapter 12|11 pages

(SA)fe Sp(aces)

Conjugality and Sex in Online South Asian Asexual Discourses

chapter 13|19 pages

Erasure, Camouflage, Exceptionalism, and Cultural Criticism

Asexuality and Masculinity Threat

part V|76 pages

Reading Asexually

chapter 22814|14 pages

Subjective Limits of Imagination

Race, Gender, and Sex in the Archives

chapter 16|13 pages

“What to Call That Sport, The Neuter Human …”

Asexual Subjectivity in Keri Hulme's The Bone People

part VI|42 pages

Asexual Kinship and Platonic Intimacies

chapter 30418|17 pages

Asexual Kinship

Capitalism, Reproduction, and an Imperiality of Asexuality

chapter 19|15 pages

#Platonicintimacy

Asian North American Asexualities and Their Fairytales

chapter 20|8 pages

Girltalk

Reflections on Testosterone, A/sexuality, and Libido

part VII|70 pages

Ace Solidarities/Ace Futures

chapter 34621|16 pages

Asexuality and Disability

Mutual Negation in Adams v. Rice and New Directions for Coalition Building

chapter 22|20 pages

Toward an Ace- and Aro-Friendly Society

Reconstructing the Sexual Orientation Paradigm

chapter 24|17 pages

“Freedom Lovers”

Blackness, Asexuality, Abolition

chapter |2 pages

Coda

“Never Enough”: Then, Now, and Tomorrow